Booklist articles from October 2005

Booklist archives from October 2005

Biskupic, Joan. Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Biskupic, Joan. Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice. Nov. 2005. 400p. index. Ecco, $26.95 (0-06-059018-1). 347.73. Before Sandra Day O'Connor's recent retirement, she was...

Dowd, Maureen. Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Dowd, Maureen. Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Nov. 2005. 352p. Putnam, $25.95 (0-399-15332.2). 305.3. Sex is a topic generally considered unsuitable for polite conversation. Ah, but the intrepid New York Times columnist, winner of a...

Halberstam, David. The Education of a Coach.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Halberstam, David. The Education of a Coach. Nov. 2005. 288p. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0154-1). 796.332092. Bill Belichick is the head coach of the New England Patriots and a second-generation descendant of a determined Croatian immigrant...

Harr, Jonathan. The Lost Painting.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Harr, Jonathan. The Lost Painting. Nov. 2005. 272p. Random, $24.95 (0-375-50801-5). 759.5. Harr, author of the best-selling A Civil Action (1995), turns from a true-life courtroom drama to the riveting story of a lost masterpiece. The...

Kurlansky, Mark. The Big Oyster: New York on the Half Shell.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Kurlansky, Mark. The Big Oyster: New York on the Half Shell. Mar. 2006. 320p. index. Ballantine, $23.95 (0-345-47638.7). 641.6 In both Cod(1997) and Salt (2002), Kurlansky showed his genius for using a single commercial foodstuff as a lens...

Noonan, Peggy. John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Noonan, Peggy. John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father. Nov. 2005. 239p. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03748-6). 282. Speechwriter and columnist Noonan is better at flashing insight and anecdote than at sustained argument and narrative....

Weigel, George. God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Weigel, George. God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church. Nov. 2005. 288p. index. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-621331-2). 282. One of the foremost biographers of Pope John Paul II (Witness to Hope, 1999) has...

Sparks, Nicholas. At First Sight.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Sparks, Nicholas. At First Sight. Oct. 2005. 278p. Warner, $24.95 (0-446-53242-8). Romance. The relationship between journalist Jeremy Marsh and librarian Lexie Darnell that began in True Believer (2005) has now progressed. Jeremy is...

Auster, Paul. The Brooklyn Follies.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Auster, Paul. The Brooklyn Follies. Jan. 2006. 306p. Holt, $24 (0-8050-7714-6). General Fiction. Just when you think you've got Auster pegged, he shape-shifts. Not that his mesmerizing new novel isn't instantly recognizable as an Auster...

Feet to the Fire: The Media After 9/11: Top Journalists Speak Out.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Feet to the Fire: The Media after 9/11; Top Journalists Speak Out. Ed. by Kristina Borjesson. Oct. 2005. 320p. illus. Prometheus, $25 (1-59102-343-2). 070.4. American media has garnered severe criticism, particularly abroad, for failing to...

Gerber, Robin. Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Gerber, Robin. Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon. Oct. 2005. 238p. index. Penguin/Portfolio, $24.95 (1-59184-104-6). 070.5. When her husband, Philip, committed suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham was thrust into...

Bulliet, Richard W. Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Bulliet, Richard W. Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships. Oct. 2005. 256p. index. Columbia, $27.50 (0-231-13076-7). 179. One only has to hear the hair-raising cry of a predatory coyote in a...

Banner, Stuart. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Banner, Stuart. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier. Oct. 2005. 364p. illus. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-01871-0). 333.2. Banner's well-documented history addresses the question of how repeated land sales drove...

de Waal, Frans. Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * de Waal, Frans. Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are. Oct. 2005. 288p. illus. index. Riverhead, $25.95 (1-57322-312-3). 156. In Chimpanzee Politics (1982) and five succeeding books, de Waal has called...

My namesake.(The Manley Arts)(adventure literature)(Column)
October 1, 2005... Since 1266, when Marco Polo wrote The Travels of Marco Polo, the adventure story has been one of the most popular genres for general readers. Polo's long and tortuous journey to the court of Kublai Khan in Peking was spiced with the excitement...

Berreby, David. Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Berreby, David. Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind. Oct. 2005. 384p. index. Little, Brown, $26.95 (0-316-09030-1). 305. Remember the children's game "What Doesn't Fit and Why?" It's one thing to look at a group of objects and...

Cassingham, Randy. The True Stella Awards: Honoring Real Cases of Greedy Opportunists, Frivolous Lawsuits, and the Law Run Amok.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Cassingham, Randy. The True Stella Awards: Honoring Real Cases of Greedy Opportunists, Frivolous Lawsuits, and the Law Run Amok. Nov. 2005. 288p. index. Dutton, $18.95 (0-525-94913-5). 347.73. The Stella Awards are named for Stella Liebeck,...

Clancy, Susan A. Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Clancy, Susan A. Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens. Oct. 2005. 162p. index. Harvard, $22.95 (0-674-01879-6). 001.942. In conducting lab tests to find out if people with recovered memories of childhood...

Enriquez, Juan. The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Enriquez, Juan. The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future. Nov. 2005.288p. illus. Crown, $24.95 (0-307-23752-4). 306. SOCIAL SCIENCES Could the U.S. As we know it shrink or expand, change its overall...

Fox, Gunnar. Kick Ass in College: A Guerrilla Guide to College Success.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Fox, Gunnar. Kick Ass in College: A Guerrilla Guide to College Success. Nov. 2005. 248p. illus. Kick Ass Media, paper, $16.95 (0-9762928-2-3). 378.1. Although Fox, a "person young enough to have college in his rear-view mirror," has...

Gould, Lewis. The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Gould, Lewis. The Most Exclusive Club: A History of the Modern United States Senate. Nov. 2005. 416p. illus. index. Basic, $27.50 (0-465-02778-4). 328.73. A prolific chronicler of American political history (1968: The Election That Changed...

Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall. Ed. by Cheryl Dumesnil. Oct. 2005. 240p. Thunder's Mouth, paper, $14.95 (1-56025-764-4). 305.9. On February 12, 2004, the grand divas of lesbian coupledom (51 years together), Phyllis...

Sunstein, Cass R. Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Sunstein, Cass R. Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America. Oct. 2005. 272p. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-08326-9). 347.73. Sunstein, legal theorist and law professor, offers an analytical framework to examine...

Winik, Marion. Above Us Only Sky: Essays by Marion Winik.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Winik, Marion. Above Us Only Sky: A Woman Looks Back, Ahead, and Into the Mirror. Oct. 2005. 224p. Seal, paper, $14.95 (1-58005-144-8). 306.87. Though often compared to Erma Bombeck and Anna Quindlen, with perhaps a dash of Garrison...

Loewen, James. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Loewen, James. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America. Oct. 2005. 576p. index. New Press, $29.95 (1-56584-887-X). 363.5. In the long and troubled history of race relations in the U.S., one fairly hidden and unstudied...

Savan, Leslie. Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Savan, Leslie. Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever. Oct. 2005. 352p. index. Knopf, $23.95 (0-375-40247-0). 302.23. Language mavens rejoice! This new book by three-time...

Aczel, Amir D. Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Aczel, Amir D. Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe. Oct. 2005. 288p. illus. index. Broadway, $24.95 (0-7679-2033-3). 510. Aczel's new episode from mathematical history...

Feynman, Richard P. and Leighton, Ralph. Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Feynman, Richard P. and Leighton, Ralph. Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character. Oct. 2005. 608p. Norton, $29.95 (0-393-06132-9). 530. Not many Nobel laureates in physics amuse themselves by playing the bongo drums and...

Fredston, Jill. Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Fredston, Jill. Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches. Nov. 2005. 352p. illus. Harcourt, $24 (0-15-101249-0). 551.3. This seems to be the era of a genre perhaps best called nature-adventure-disaster. Fredston, who lives with her husband in...

Silvertown, Jonathan. Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Silvertown, Jonathan. Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity. Nov. 2005. 160p. index. Univ. of Chicago, $25 (0-226-75771-4). 581.7. Anyone who has ever experienced the otherworldly proliferation of kudzu will appreciate the concept...

Wakefield, Julie. Halley's Quest: A Selfless Genius and His Troubled Paramore.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Wakefield, Julie. Halley's Quest: A Selfless Genius and His Troubled Paramore. Oct. 2005. 256p. index. Joseph Henry, $27.95 (0-309-09594-8). 526. Edmund Halley is best known for discovering and calculating the period of the comet named...

Grogan, John. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Grogan, John. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog. Nov. 2005. 288p. Morrow, $21.95 (0-06-081708-9). 636.752. "Oh my. I don't think I've ever seen anything so cute in my life." Thus author Grogan's wife sealed their fate...

Wecht, Cyril and others. Tales from the Morgue: Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases Including the Scott Peterson & Chandra Levy Cases.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Wecht, Cyril and others. Tales from the Morgue: Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases Including the Scott Peterson & Chandra Levy Cases. Oct. 2005. 300p. illus. index. Prometheus, $26 (1-59102-353-X). 614. Too gruesome to be ignored, too...

King, Michael. Gardening with Tulips.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... King, Michael. Gardening with Tulips. Oct. 2005. 192p. illus. index. Timber, $29.95 (0-88192-744-9). 635.9. While tulips planted in uninspired rows lack charm and look old-fashioned, resulting in a gardening cliche, skillful designers like...

Zachos, Ellen. Tempting Tropicals: 175 Irresistible Indoor Plants.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Zachos, Ellen. Tempting Tropicals: 175 Irresistible Indoor Plants. Oct. 2005. 272p. illus. index. Timber, $29.95 (0-88192-732-5). 635.9. Gardeners living in the country's warmest regions can grow and enjoy tropical plants as they please,...

Oxnam, Robert B. A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Oxnam, Robert B. A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder. Oct. 2005.304p. Hyperion, $23.95 (1-4013-0227-0). 616.85. Sybil, of course, and a handful of others have achieved a measure of public recognition as a result...

Esposito, Mary Ann. Ciao Italia Pronto! 30-Minute Recipes from an Italian Kitchen.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Esposito, Mary Ann. Ciao Italia Pronto! 30-Minute Recipes from an Italian Kitchen. Oct. 2005. 224p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $27.95 (0-312-33908-9). 641.59. Cooks pressed for time will love Esposito's newest volume. Here she focuses on...

Mayle, Peter and Auzet, Gerard. Confessions of a French Baker: Breadmaking Secrets, Tips, and Recipes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mayle, Peter and Auzet, Gerard. Confessions of a French Baker: Breadmaking Secrets, Tips, and Recipes. Nov. 2005.91p. Knopf, $19.95 (1-4000-4474-X). 641.8. Despite the title's implications, this tiny book offers no lurid expose. Rather,...

Smith, Bill. Seasoned in the South: Recipes from Crook's Corner and from Home.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Smith, Bill. Seasoned in the South: Recipes from Crook's Corner and from Home. Oct. 2005. 208p. illus. index. Algonquin, $23.95 (1-56512-479-0). 641.59. Smith's Crook's Corner restaurant in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has won raves from...

Wilson, Dede. A Baker's Field Guide to Holiday Candy and Confections: Sweet Treats All Year Long.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Wilson, Dede. A Baker's Field Guide to Holiday Candy and Confections: Sweet Treats All Year Long. Oct. 2005. 176p. illus. index. Harvard Common, $16.95 (1-55832-309-0). 641.8. The third in the Baker's Field Guide series is authored by...

Wyler, Susan. Cooking for a Crowd: Menus, Recipes, and Strategies for Entertaining 10 to 50.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Wyler, Susan. Cooking for a Crowd: Menus, Recipes, and Strategies for Entertaining 10 to 50. 2005. 288p. illus. index. Rodale, paper, $19.95 (1-59486-011-4). 641.5. When a cook has a swarm of eaters to satisfy, it's more important than...

Alba, Ben. Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Alba, Ben. Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show. Oct. 2005. 325p. illus. Prometheus, $26 (1-59102-342-4). 791.45. Steve Allen--not Johnny Carson, not Jack Paar--was the progenitor of the late-night TV yapfest,...

Da Capo Best Music Writing, 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More. Ed. by JT LeRoy and Paul Bresnick.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Da Capo Best Music Writing, 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More. Ed. by JT LeRoy and Paul Bresnick. Oct. 2005. 224p. Da Capo, paper, $15.95 (0-306-81446-3). 781.64. This year's package of bite-size...

Donnelly, Liza. Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Donnelly, Liza. Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons. Oct. 2005. 214p. illus. index. Prometheus, $32 (1-59102-344-0). 741.5. Cartoons constitute one of the New Yorker's greatest selling points, with...

Emerson, Ken. Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2005... Emerson, Ken. Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era. Oct. 2005. 320p. index. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03456-8). 782.42166. Many of the early sixties' most memorable songs, such as "Up on the Roof," "Stand...

Watkins, Mel. Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Watkins, Mel. Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry. Oct. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Pantheon, $26.95 (0-375-42382-6). 791.4302. Lincoln Perry's Stepin Fetchit personified the image of a shiftless, lazy, and cowardly Negro,...

Chansky, Art. Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Storied Rivalry in College Hoops.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Chansky, Art. Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Storied Rivalry in College Hoops. Nov. 2005. 400p. illus. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.95 (0-312-32787-0). 796.323. What's interesting about the Duke-North Carolina...

Yoast, Bill. Remember This Titan: Lessons Learned from a Celebrated Coach's Journey.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Yoast, Bill. Remember This Titan: Lessons Learned from a Celebrated Coach's Journey. Oct. 2005. 192p. illus. Taylor, $21.95 (1-58979-278-5). 796.332. When T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, was desegregated in 1972, Yoast...

Avedon, Richard and Hollander, Anne. Woman in the Mirror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Avedon, Richard and Hollander, Anne. Woman in the Mirror. Nov. 2005.248p. illus. index. Abrams, $65 (0-8109-5962-3). 779. For Richard Avedon, portraits were works of art that contemplate the human form and create windows into the soul. As...

The Best American Essays, 2005.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Best American Essays, 2005. Ed. by Susan Orlean and Robert Atwan. Oct. 2005. 320p. Houghton, $27.50 (0-618-35712-2); paper, $14 (0-618-35713-0). 808. The attractions of this distinguished annual collection are many. There's the ah-ha...

The Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2005.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Best American Nonrequired Reading, 2005. Ed. by Dave Eggers. Oct. 2005. 368p. Houghton, $27.50 (0-618-57047-0); paper, $14 (0-618-57048-9). 818. Once again, aided by an advisory board of high-school students, Eggers has selected an...

Charyn, Jerome. Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Charyn, Jerome. Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel. Oct. 2005. 240p. illus. index. Random, $24.95 (0-679-64306-0). 813. The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (2001), replete with commentary by Cynthia Ozick and Babel's...

Peter, Josh. Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies and Bull Riders: A Year inside the Professional Bull Riders Tour.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Peter, Josh. Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies and Bull Riders: A Year inside the Professional Bull Riders Tour. Nov. 2005. 272p. illus. index. Rodale, $24.95 (1-59486-119-6). 791.8. The argument can be made that the Professional Bull Riders...

Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece. Ed. by Jennifer Crusie. 2005. 248p. BenBella, paper, $14.95 (1-932100-72-5). 823. Although Jane Austen is often acknowledged as the godmother of...

Gibbs, A. M. Bernard Shaw.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Gibbs, A. M. Bernard Shaw. Dec. 2005. 608p. index. Univ. Press of Florida, $39.95 (0-8130-2859-0). 822. "When a thing is funny," declared George Bernard Shaw, "search it for a hidden truth." Distinguished Shaw scholar Gibbs has searched...

May, Stephen J. Michener: A Writer's Journey.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... May, Stephen J. Michener: A Writer's Journey. Oct. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Univ. of Oklahoma, $29.95 (0-8061-3699-5). 813. May's is the first biography of Michener concerned with the private as well as the public man. May draws on the...

Rowley, Hazel. Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Rowley, Hazel. Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Oct. 2005. 432p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $26.95 (0-06-052059-0). 840.9. No matter how many other lovers the radical French intellectuals and prolific writers Simone...

Themerson, Stefan. Hobson's Island.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Themerson, Stefan. Hobson's Island. Oct. 2005. 196p. Dalkey Archive, paper, $13.95 (1-56478-417-7). 823. A peaceful, mild-wintered place inhabited only by its caretakers, who "hardly ever see anybody and are not used to speaking to...

Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel. Ed. by Esi Sutherland Addy and Aminata Diaw. Nov. 2005. 560p. Feminist, $75 (1-55861-501-6); paper, $29.95 (1-55861-500-8). 896. With a strong focus on scholarly research and analysis, this...

Stach, Reiner. Kafka: The Decisive Years.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Stach, Reiner. Kafka: The Decisive Years. Tr. by Shelley Frisch. Nov. 2005. 608p. illus. index. Harcourt, $35 (0-15-100752-7). 833. A voracious reader of biographies, Kafka himself eluded the attention of capable biographers for a very...

100 Essential Modern Poems.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... 100 Essential Modern Poems. Ed. by Joseph Parisi. Oct. 2005. 224p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $24.95 (1-56663-612-4). 821. Parisi served as editor of Poetry magazine from 1983 to 2003, and he has edited two invaluable anthologies that chronicle...

Alexander, Elizabeth. American Sublime.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Alexander, Elizabeth. American Sublime. Oct. 2005. 96p. Graywolf, paper, $14 (1-55597-432-5). 811. With a scholarly grasp of personal, political, and private histories, Alexander's newest collection examines the African American...

Gonzalez, Ray. Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems, 1986-2005.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Gonzalez, Ray. Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems, 1986-2005. Oct. 2005. 240p. BOA, paper, $19.95 (1-929918-70-4). 811. Selected poems from six previous books are united with 30 new poems in a collection that showcases...

Hopkins, Keith and Beard, Mary. The Colosseum.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Hopkins, Keith and Beard, Mary. The Colosseum. Nov. 2005. 222p. illus. index. Harvard, $19.95 (0-674-01895-8). 914.45. The authors point out that the Colosseum in Rome was constructed for the enjoyment of murder. They explain the role of...

McGregor, James H. S. Rome from the Ground Up.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... McGregor, James H. S. Rome from the Ground Up. Oct. 2005. 332p. illus. index. Harvard, $29.95 (0-674-01911-3). 914.45. Where history, architecture, and travel find common ground is where this author dwells. Here he revisits the long and...

Schumacher, Michael. Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Schumacher, Michael. Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Nov. 2005. 224p. illus. index. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (1-58234-647-X). 917.74. Schumacher has previously written about popular music, which, given that his subject here...

Fox, William L. Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... * Fox, William L. Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent. Oct. 2005. 364p. illus. index. Trinity Univ., $35 (1-59534-015-7). 919.89. So pristine is Antarctica, and so spare is its ecosystem, it has become a living laboratory...

Silvis, Randall. North of Unknown: Mina Hubbard's Extraordinary Expedition into the Labrador Wilderness.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Silvis, Randall. North of Unknown: Mina Hubbard's Extraordinary Expedition into the Labrador Wilderness. Oct. 2005. 304p. illus. Lyons, $22.95 (1-59228-755-7). 917.18. A demure lady who epitomized the Victorian ideals of reticence and...

Weightman, Gavin. London's Thames: The River That Shaped a City and Its History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Weightman, Gavin. London's Thames: The River That Shaped a City and Its History. Dec. 2005. 160p. illus. index. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-34017-6). 914.42. Weightman's eleventh book is his second on the famous Thames River in England. He...

Bercuson, David and Herwig, Holger. One Christmas in Washington: Roosevelt and Churchill Forge the Grand Alliance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Bercuson, David and Herwig, Holger. One Christmas in Washington: Roosevelt and Churchill Forge the Grand Alliance. Oct. 2005. 320p. illus. index. Overlook, $35 (1-58567-403-6). 973.917. Describing Winston Churchill's stay with FDR from...

Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters. Ed. by Elisabeth Petry. Oct. 2005. 240p. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $35 (1-57806-785-5). 813. Petry offers a mesmerizing look at the everyday lives of a middle-class African American...

Clubb, Merrel. A Life Disturbed: My Pacific War Revisited.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Clubb, Merrel. A Life Disturbed: My Pacific War Revisited. Oct. 2005. 252p. Univ. of Washington, $24.95 (0-295-98536-4). 940.53. As a young man fresh out of Oklahoma A&M, Clubb, now a professor emeritus of English, was a naval fire-control...

Ferriter, Diarmaid. The Transformation of Ireland.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Ferriter, Diarmaid. The Transformation of Ireland. Oct. 2005. 884p. index. Overlook, $35 (1-58567-681-0). 941.5082. When considering Ireland during the twentieth century, most people will think first of the Easter Uprising, the late...

Harper, Jean. Rose City: A Memoir of Work.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Harper, Jean. Rose City: A Memoir of Work. Oct. 2005. 192p. Mid-List, paper, $16 (0-922811-65-2). 977.2. The anguish of divorce and the anxiety surrounding an uncertain future are explored with blazing honesty and sublime poignancy in...

Hart, Gary. James Monroe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Hart, Gary. James Monroe. Oct. 2005. 192p. index. Holt/Times, $20 (0-8050-6960-7). 973.5. Neither as literary as Josiah Bunting III's Ulysses S. Grant (2004) nor as utterly revelatory as Charles W. Calhoun's Benjamin Harrison (2005),...

Hayward, Steven F. Greatness: Reagan, Churchill & the Making of Extraordinary Leaders.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Hayward, Steven E Greatness: Reagan, Churchill & the Making of Extraordinary Leaders. Oct. 2005. 192p. Crown Forum, $22 (0-307-23715-X). 941.084. Hayward compares and contrasts two stalwarts of conservatives' twentieth-century pantheon....

Horn, James. A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Horn, James. A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. Oct. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Basic, $23 (0-465-03094-7). 975.5. A meticulous history of Jamestown, covering its start in 1607 to the final, failed Indian effort to...

In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond. Ed. by Jeremy Brecher and others. Oct. 2005. 352p. Holt/ Metropolitan, paper, $16 (0-8050-7969-6). 956.7044. As Americans undergo an agonizing reappraisal of the war in Iraq...

Lemay, J. A. Leo. The Life of Benjamin Franklin, v.1: Journalist, 1706-1730.(The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747, vol. 2)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Lemay, J. A. Leo. The Life of Benjamin Franklin, v.1: Journalist, 1706-1730. Oct. 2005. 510p. illus. index. Univ. of Pennsylvania, $39.95 (0-8122-3854-0). 973.3. Lemay, J. A. Leo. The Life of Benjamin Franklin, v.2: Printer and Publisher,...

Lewis, Tom. The Hudson.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Lewis, Tom. The Hudson. Oct. 2005. 352p. illus. index. Yale, $30 (0-300-10424-3). 974.7. A historian of the interstate highways (Divided Highways, 1997), Lewis here sifts through the thick layers of Hudson River history. Avenue of...

Mittermeier, Russell A. and others. Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mittermeier, Russell A. and others. Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel. Photographs by Theo Allofs. Oct. 2005. 176p. index. Firefly, $35 (1-55407-090-2). 981.72. The Pantanal is "the world's largest contiguous wetland on the planet"...

Muller, Karin. Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Muller, Karin. Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa. Oct. 2005. 320p. Rodale, $23.95 (1-59486-223-0). 952. At age 34, American documentary filmmaker, writer, and judo maven Muller spent a year in Japan searching for the meaning of life. Her...

Robinson, Derek. Invasion, 1940: The Truth about the Battle of Britain and What Stopped Hitler.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Robinson, Derek. Invasion, 1940: The Truth about the Battle of Britain and What Stopped Hitler. Oct. 2005. 320p. illus. index. Carroll & Graf, $25 (0-7867-1618-5). 940.53. Robinson's thesis is that the RAF didn't save Britain from invasion...

Rubin, Gretchen. Forty Ways to Look at JFK.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Rubin, Gretchen. Forty Ways to Look at JFK. Oct. 2005. 400p. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-345-45049-3). 973.922. The author of Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill asks one simple question: What made Kennedy Kennedy? Everybody writes about the...